Whatever you do, you need courage.

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

Everything good is on the highway.

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.

Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it leaves us where we were. It names things, but does not add things.